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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS M. NORTH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO ROBERT HOE AND CHARLES W. CARPENTER, O'F SAME PLACE.

PRINTING-MACHINE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,575, dated December 2K5, 1906.

' Application filed April 5, 1900s Serial No. 115693. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS M. NORTH, a lsubject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing- Machines, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in printing machinery.

It is the object of this invention to produce a machine which is capacitated to produce a product which includes a newspaper and a magazine section, said sections being associated and folded together, so that they come out of the machine as a single product.

With this and other objects in view the invention consists in certain constructions and. in certain parts, improvements, and combinations, as will be hereinafter described, and fully pointed out in the claims hereunto appended. i

Referring to the drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which like characters of reference indicate the same parts, Figure l is a diagrammatic View illustratin g in perspective the cylinders of a printing-press, said cylinders having plates thereon arranged to print both a newspaper and a magazine. Fig. 2 is a front View of the folding and pasting in echanisms employed. Fig. 3 is a side view of the mechanism shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a View similar to Fig. 3, but with the parts in a different position. Fig.' 5 is a detail sectional view of the cutting and folding cylinders, this view being on a somewhat larger scale. Fig. 6 is `a View of the newspaper portion of the product. Fig. 7 is a view of the magazine portion of the product. Fig. 8 is a view of the paper shown in Fig. 6 and the magazine shown in Fig. 7, these two parts being associated. Fig. 9 is a perspective View showing the relation of two singlewidth webs to each other as they pass to the folder, the webs being arranged to produce an eight-page paper and a sixteen-page magazine.

The machine which is illustratedin the accompanying drawings and which forms one Aconcrete embodiment ofthe invention is ar; ranged to print and perfect two single Wide webs.

Referring to Fig. l, 1 indicates the formcarrying cylinder, and 2 the impression-cylinder, of the couple for printing on one side of one of the webs, said web being marked A, and 3 and 4 the form-carrying cylinder and impression-cylinder, respectively, for printing on the other side of the web. The web B has one of its sides printed on by a couple the form-cylinder of which is marked 5 and the impression-cylinder 6, and this web is perfected by a couple the form-cylinderof which is marked 7 and the impression-cylinder 8.

The machine which has been selected to illustrate the invention is intended to produce an eight-page newspaper and a sixteen-page magazine. rTo this end each of the form-cylinders l 3 5 7 is provided with two sets of plates,(marked 9 and 10.) The plates 9 ou the several cylinders are so arranged that the columns run around the cylinderthat is, they deliver impressions on the webs which are parallel to the general direction of movement of the webs. The plates l() are arranged on the 'cylinders so that the columns are at right angles to the columns of the plates 9- that is to say, the columns of this second set of plateslO are parallel to the axis of each cylinder. The plates 10 will therefore deliver sets of impressions on the webs the co1- umns of which are at right angles to the sets of impressions delivered by the plates 9. Furthermore, in the machine shown, while the set of impressions delivered by each set of plates 9 on each cylinder is equal in size to the set of impressions delivered by each set of plates l0 on each cylinder the plates are so arranged that the sets of impressions delivered by each of the plates 9 form two pages of the product, while the sets of impressions delivered by each of the plates 10 form four pages of the product.

After the webs have been printed by the couples they are led forward to an associating and folding mechanism. While this associating and folding mechanism may be va- -While the web B passes around a guide-'roller 12, suitably journaled in the frame.

The sheets which compose the newspaper will preferably be folded and pasted together, though, if desired, they may only be lflded together, and the sheets which compose the magazine will also preferably be united by paste. i

Any suitable pasting mechanism may be employed to apply paste at the proper places on each of the webs in order that the sheets forming the magazine when they are properly associated and folded together in themanner 2o to'be hereinafter described'will be 'unitedfby the paste. In the machine shown a pastingblade 13, mounted on Va shaft 14, is located' vbeneath the path of travel of the web A. This pasting-blade 13 extends across the path of the vweb'from side to side and applies a transverse line of paste 13 thereto, (see Fig. 9,) 'the blade receiving its paste from a suitablydriven paste-roll 15, located in a fountain 16.

Inasmuch as the paster is'to apply paste 3o only to that vportion of the web whichhasthe 'magazine-pages printed thereon and inas-v much as it is desirable that at the time of pasting the pasting-blade be 'moving at the same speed as the web, the pastel' is preferably so constructed as tol enable it to move at the same speed as the web during the pasting operation, butto apply paste only to v'alternate sections. Various constructions of paster may be used by which the result above indcatedmay be accomplished. Preferably,

however, the pyaster'will consist of a blade,'as before described, provision being made for driving it at varying speeds. The shaft "14,

von'which in the construction shown the paster is mounted, is provided with an elliptical gear '17, 'said gear meshing with an elliptical gear 418, mounted on a shaft 19 of the paste-roll15. The shaft 19 also carries a gear 20, Vwhich meshes with an intermediate 21, said vintermediate being driven at a constant speed in a manner to be herein described. By properly proportioning the elliptical gears, and thus driving the paster at varying speeds,`the

'pastingblade 13 can be arranged so thatit will make butone revolution `while two printed sections of the web are passing, and`yet move at'the same speed as the web during the time "when the paste is being applied thereto. y The Web preferably has a line of 'pastel` 6o 22 applied thereto on the under side thereof,`

said line lying between the pages of the magazine-section, but extending only half across 'theweb `(See Fig. 9.) In order that this line of plate may not be wiped off bythe roller 11 ,`before referredt-o, `and vthe longi-` "tudinal folde'r,to befhereinafter described,` it will preferably be made up of a series of paste from a fountain 26. lis com'posediof th'efingers 22, is preferably 'driven like the 'pasting-blade 13--thatis to short disconnected lines. To this end the paste is 'applied by a series 'of fingers 22, mounted on a shaft 23, said ingers`22 receiving their paste from a paste-roll 24, mounted on a shaft 25, said roll 24 receiving its The paster, which say, at varying speeds. To this end, therefore, the shaft 25 is provided with an elliptical gear 27, which meshes with an elliptical gear 28 on the shaft 23.

When it is desired to paste together the 'sections of the webs A'and B "which 'are to form the newspaper portion of the product, a paster vwill be provided which applies a longitudinal line of paste to the newspaper-section of one of the `Webs. Whilethis pa'ster maybe 'variedinform and variously located, itwill preferably be arrangedso as toapply itsline of paste29 to the upper side of the vweb B. This paste'r will preferably consist of'a semicircular disk`29, running in afountain 30, said. disk being'mounted on ash'aft'3l. Theshaft31 may-be driven in any suitable manner. In the machine shown,`however,

itis provided with a gear 32, which meshes with the intermediate`21, the 'relationofthe gearing being such 'that the vrpaste-disk is driven ata slower'speed than the speed of Ithe web in the machine shown at half the speed. The gear 32 lmeshes with a gear 33, said gear meshing zin'turn with argear 34 on the shaft 25. By this arrangementfof gear- -ingit will/be seen that 4the intermediate 21 drives all'the pasting mechanisms.

While the-intermediate 2l may be'driven in any suitable manner in the machine shown, itiis in mesh with land'driven'byapinion 35, mounted on a shaft 36, extending across the 'frame of the' machine from side'toside. This shaft3b'carries 'a `miteregear 37,'-which is in mesh 'withlamiter-gear 38, 'carried'by a've'r- 'tical shaft 39, whichlis'supported inb'earings 40, extendingfrom'the frame o'fthe machine. The shaft 39 carries onlits lower enda bevelgear 41,1which-is in-mesh vwith a similar gear 42, said gear being driven in lany suitable manner, as by a train, from thecutting and collecting cylinder, `which will Vbe hereinafiterdescribed.' vThe shaft 36is also provided with afgear 43, which meshesjwith aige'ar 44 on'the shaft "11' of the roller `1l, before described.

Inthe machine shown the webs A and B,

Yas has been'before stated, meer and "are superposed on the roller ll, therun ofthe webs kbeing-so arranged that the newspaper-sec- IOO IIO

that the line of paste 22 applied to the nnder side of the web B by Ithe ngers 22 may not be wiped off as it passes over the roller 1l, the roller is channeled at 45, as shown in Fig. 2. l

As has been before stated, the magazine portion of the product is to consist of sixteen pages, and these pages are preferablycut, so that the magazine may be readily opened by the reader. In order to effect this, a suitable slitting mechanism is provided,which may be variously constructed. In the machine shown the slitter consists of a disk 47, mounted on a shaft 48, which is supported in bearings 49, said bearings being secured to a shaft 50, which is mounted in bearings 5l, extending from the frame of the machine. The shaft 48 is provided with a gear 52, which is in mesh with a gear 53, mounted on the shaft 50. The gear'53 is in mesh with an intermediate 54, said intermediate being in mesh with the gear 44 on the shaft ll.

Inasmuch as the slitter is not intended to out the newspaper portion of the web, it must be thrown out of operation while this part of the web is passing under it. Various constructions may be devised for this purpose. In the machine shown, however, the shaft 50 is provided with an arm 55, to which is connected a rod 56. The rod 56 is connected at its lower end to one arm 57 of a bell-crank 57' 58, which is pivoted to the machine at 59. The arm 58 of the bell-crank carries a friction-roll 60, which runs in the groove of a closed cam- 61, mounted on the shaft of the folding-cylinder, to be hereinafter described. As the cam rotates, therefore, the slitter will be rocked toward and away from the path of the web, and the cam isV timed so that it is rocked into cutting position as the magazinesections of the web are passing overl the roll l1, thus dividing the magazine-sections of the web into two parts. As soon, however, as a magazine-section of the web has passed from under the slitter the slitter is rocked upward, allowing the newspaper-section to pass uncut. It will be understood that this slitter may be omitted when it is desired to produce an uncut magazine.

Any suitable means may be employed to give the web a longitudinal fold. In the machine shown, however, an ordinary longitudinal folder is employed for this purpose, said folder consisting of angle-bars 63, strips 64, and a plate 65, the strips making up one-half of the face of the folder and being spaced apart, so as to avoid wiping the paste on the linel22 from the under side of the under web.

Inasmuch as the web is pasted only half-way across, one-half of the folder is formed by the plate 65.

As the associated Webs passover the folder.

sociated Webs in the construction shown are, however, separated on the line of cut promagazine portions.

duced by the slitter 47 and are therefore superposed by the folder. It will be remembered that the magazine-sections of the upper web had a line of paste I3' applied to them. As the webs pass over the roll l1, therefore, the superposed magazine-sections of the two webs are pasted together. As the associated webs leave the folder, therefore, the first sections of the webs are a newspaper having a central line of fold parallel to its column-lines, said newspaper consisting of two plies of four pages each, said plies being pasted together. The second sections of the Webs, whichare integrally connected to the first sections, are an unfolded magazine consisting of four superposed plies of four pages each, said plies being pasted together.

The webs pass from the longitudinal folder through the usual drawing-off rollers to a pair of cylinders, one of which, 67, is provided with a cutting-blade 68 and a set of sheet-taking pins 69 of ordinary construction. The other cylinder, 70, is provided with cutting-blocks 7l 7l', a set of ordinary sheet-taking pins 72, and a folding-blade 73, also of the usual construction. As the webs pass between these cylinders, supposing the newspaper-sections of the associated webs to be leading, the pins 69 on the cylinder 67 are operated to seize the heads of the newspaper portions of the webs, said portions being thus carried around the cylinder 67. As the cylinder completes its rotation the cutting-blade 68 cuts the webs between the newspaper portion and the magazine portion, the leading ends of the newspa` per portions of the Webs having in the meantime met the leading ends of the oncoming As soon as the cutting operation is performed the pins 69 are withdrawn, and the pins 72 operate to take both the magazine portions of the webs and the newspaper portions, so that the two are superposed and carried onward by the cylinder 70.

It will be remembered that the newspaper portion of the webs has received a central fold parallel to its columns and that the magazine portion is as yet unfolded. As the two sections come together on the cylinder they are, therefore, of the same size; but the columns on one section are arranged at right angles to the columns on the other section-that is to say, the columns on the newspaper portion of the product run around the cylinder 70, while the columns on the magazine portion are parallel to the axis of the cylinder. The two products thus superposed are carried onward by the cylinder 70 until the knife 68 on the cylinder 67 meetsthe cutting-block 7l on the cylinder 70. When this occurs the magazine portion is severed from the succeeding newspaperportion,and immediately thereafter the folding-blade 73 is operated to tuck the associated product from the cylinder 70 between suitable folding-rolls 74, from which point they are carried off to any suitable delivery.

The position ot' the columns on the two prod- IOO IIO

uctsfon the "cylinder being rem'ember'ed,fit Vwill "beiseen that the folding-blade 73opera`tes togive the newspaper portion of the product afoldacross `its'columns and at the same time to give themagazine portion a fold parallel tov itsjcolumns. The result of the 'action'of this folding-blade is "that a product is 'produced consisting of a newspaper having a half-sheet fold witha'magazine inside of it.

The construction ybywhich the invention is carried intoeiect may bevaried Widely. 'l-heinvention is not, ther`efore,'to be limited tothe specific details of Vconstruction which have been-hereinbefore described.

What is claimed is- 1. rlhe combination withmeans for`r printing a web so that 'the columns of a setof'the impressions will beparallelwith the runoffthe web-and the'columnsof another set of impressions willbe at right angles to the-runf'of the web, of means for giving theweb a 'central fold, means foi-severing it intosheets, and Ameans for associating the sheetshavingtheir columns at right angles to the run ofthe web with vthe sheets'havingtheircolum ns parallel `with the-run of the web, and means-for folding the associated product, substantially as described.

2. The combination with means for Vfor- -warding a-web havinga set of impressionslthe columns of which are parallel with the run-'of the web, and a set of impressions thecolumn's of which are at right angles to the run'o'f the web, of means'for'giving the `web a central fold, means for severing it into sheets between the sets of impressions, means for associating the sheets `with the columns of one 'sheetat right angles to the columns of the othersheet,

'and'means forlfolding the associated product,

substantiallyas described.

3. The combination with means for printing aweb so that'the columns of a 'set of the impressions will be parallel with the run of the web and the columns of another set of impressions will be at right angles to the run of the web, of means 'for severing the web'into sheets, part of the sheets containing the columns which run in onedirection and part of the sheets containing the columns which vrun.

web, of means for severing the web into sheets betweenthe sets of impressions, means f' for associating the sheets with the columns of Aone sheet at right angles to the columns of the other sheet, and means for folding the associated product, substantially as described.

5. The combination with means for printing vawairebso that-each side ofa section of itshall ema-17s contain two pages with th`e=columns running' lengthwise of 'the web, and'each side of a section'of itsh'all contain four pages with the columns-runningat right angles to therun of the web, and said four pages being equal in size tothe two pages vwhose columns .run lengthvwise of the web, and means for associating the section of `web having'two .pages on each side with the section 'of web having'four pages on each side,'substantially as described.

6. The combination with means for printing pages on a web in sets of two and sets of four, the'columns of the two-page set running in onedirection and the columns of the fourpage set being at right angles to the columns of the two-.page set,'of means forA associating the sets,-substantially`as described.

7. The combination with meansforprinting pages on a web in sets of two and sets of four, the columns of the two-pagefset running fin onedirection and lthe columns vof the lfourpage set being at rightfangles to thecolumns of the two-page set,v of means for-severing the web between the vsets of impressions, and means for associatingthesets, substantially `as described. Y

8. The combination with-meansfor'printing pages'on a web in sets of two and sets ofifour, the'columns of the two-page set running in yone directionand the column-s of the -fourpage `set being at 'right angles to the columns of the two-page set, of means 'tor'severing the web between the sets of impressions, and means for associating the `sets 4with `the col- :umns of oneset at right angles 'to the columns of the other set, substantially aside- 9. Thecombination with means for printing pages onawebin sets-of two and sets of four, of a slitting mechanism, means'for operating the lslitting mechanism to divide thatsection yof the Yweb which carries the kfour-page impressions into two parts, means for folding vthe web longitudinally-so as to givethe twopage section a central fold andsuperpose the two slit parts, means for cutting the web into sheets between the sets of impressions, and means for associating the sheets, su bstantially as described.

l0. The combination-with means for print- `ingpages on a web in sets of two and sets of four,'of a slitting mechanism, means for operating the slitting mechanism to divide that `section of the web which carries the four-page impressions into two parts, a longitudinal folder for giving the two-page -section a longitudinal central fold and su'perposing the two slit parts, means for cutting the web into sheets between the sets of impressions, and means for associating the sheets, substantially as described.

11. The combination with means for print-- ing pages on a web in sets of two and. sets of four, of alslitting mechanism, means for operating the 4slitting mechanism to divide that section ofthe web which carries the four-page 'impressions into `two parts, alongitudinal looV IIO

folder for giving the two-page section a longitudinal central fold and superposing the two slit parts, and cutting and collecting cylinders operating to out the webs into sheets between the different sets of impressions and collect the sheets, substantially as described.

12. The combination with means for printingaplurality of webs, each web having pages printed thereon in sets of two and sets of four, of means for superposing the webs with the several sets of two in register and the several sets of four in register, means for severing the webs into sheets between the sets of impressions, and means for associating the sheets, substantially as described.

13. The combination with means for forwarding a plurality of webs, each web having pages printed thereon in sets of two and sets of four, of means for superposing the webs with the several sets of two in register and the several sets'of four in register, means for severing the webs into sheets between the sets of impressions, and means for associating the sheets, substantially as described.

14. The combination with means for printing a plurality of webs, each web having pages printed thereon in sets of two and sets of four, of means for superposing the webs with the several sets of two in register and the several sets of four in register, a slitting mechanism operating to divide the sections of the webs having the sets of four pages into two parts, means for severing the webs into sheets between the sets of impressions, and means for associating the sheets, substantially as described.

15. The combination with means for forwarding a plurality of webs, each web having pages printed thereon in sets of two and sets of four, of means for superposing the webs with the several sets of two in register and the several sets of four in register, a slitting mechanism operating to divide the sections of the Webs having the sets of four pages into two parts, means for severing the webs intosheets between the sets of impressions, and means for associating the sheets, substantially as described.

16. rlhe combination with means for printinga plurality of webs, each web having pages printed thereon in sets of two and sets of four, of means for superposing lthe webs with the several sets of two in register and the several sets of four in register, a slitting mechanism operating to divide the sections of the Webs having the sets of four pages into two parts, means for giving the webs a longitudinal fold, means for severing the webs into sheets between the sets of impressions, and means for associating the sheets, substantially as described.

17. The combination with means for forwarding a plurality of webs, each web having pages printed thereon in sets of two and sets of four, of means for superposing the webs with the several sets of two in register and the several sets of four in register, a slitting mechanism operating to divide the sections oi' t he webs having the sets of four pages into two parts, means for giving the webs a longitudinal fold, means for severing the webs into sheets between the sets of impressions, and means for associating the sheets, substantially as described.

18. The combination with means for printing a plurality of webs,each web having pages printed thereon in sets of two and sets of four, of means for applying a line of paste longitudinally of the webs and between the pages printed in sets of two, means for applying a line of paste between the webs and transversely thereof, said line of paste extending between the pages printed in sets of four, means for applying a line of paste to the uuder side of the under web, said line extending transversely of the web and lying between two of the pages of the sets of four, means for bringing the webs together, a slitting mechanism operating to cut the webs longitudinally into two parts between the pages printed in sets of four, means for giving the webs a longitudinal fold, means for severing the webs into sheets between the sets of impressions, and means for collecting the sheets, substantially as described.

19. The combination with means for forwardin g a plurality of webs, each web having pages printed thereon in sets of two and sets of four, of means for applying a line of paste longitudinally of the webs and between the pages printed in sets of two, means for applying a line of paste between the webs and transversely thereof, said line of paste eX- tending between the pages printed in sets of four, means for applying a line of paste to the under side of the under web, said line extending transversely of the web and lying between two of the pages of the sets of four, means for bringing the webs together, a slitting mechanism operating to cut the Webs longitudinally into two parts between the pages printed in sets of four, means for giving the webs a longitudinal fold, means for severing the `webs into sheets between the sets of impressions, and means for collecting the sheets, substantially as described.

20. The combination with means for forwarding two webs, of`a pasting device cut away so as to apply a longitudinal line of paste to the upper side of a portion of the under web, a pasting device operating to apply a transverse line of paste to the under side of the n pper web and entirely across the same, a pasting device operatingto apply a transverse line of paste to the under side of the under web and partly across the same, and means for driving the several pasting devices, substantially as described.

21. The combination with means for forwarding two webs, of a pasting device cut away so as to apply a longitudinal line of paste to the upper side of a portion of the under web, a pasting device operating to apply a transverse line of paste to the under IOO IIO

side 'of the u'pperweb and entirely across the my hand in the presence of two subscribing same, a pasting device operating to apply a Witnesses.

transverse line of paste to the under side of A Y the under web vamd partly across the same, THOMAS M NORTH 5 and a common driving means forall thepast-l Witnesses: n

ing devices, substantially as described. F. W. H. CRANE,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set L. ROEHM. 

